#base

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#based #educationally #else #founded #industrially

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#been #black #complicated #does #ennoble

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids." ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#baseball #best #crack #down #example

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#could #lead #only #show #tv

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#always #based #classic #consider #day

I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#deeper #different #feelings #human #i

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#important #intellectually #judaism #most #religion

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#based #china #closer #dialogue #forge

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#based #decisions #i #made #point